Practice run
Football head coach Bob Valesente says the Jayhawks are practicing hard and will be ready for their season opener in two weeks.
Stories, page 11 and 12
KU's new concessions manager has a sweet job - keeping the 300 campus vending machines full so hungry students will be happy.
The candy man
Story, page 7
Rays and shine
Today will bring sunny skies and temperatures into the 80s, but by evening some clouds may move in.
Details, page 3
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 7 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Tuesday September 2,1986
Officials discuss state divestment
By ATLE BJORGE
While other states are severing ties with South Africa, some Kansas government officials say they already have divested.
Joan Finney, state treasurer and chairman of the Pool Money Investment Board, said last week that money belonging strictly to the state was not invested in companies that do business in South Africa.
The board invests state tax money and proceeds from sales of government bonds.
The last public investments in such companies were sold for $750,000 a year ago, she said.
However, Marshall Crowther, executive secretary of the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System, said the system had $275 million invested in companies that do business in South Africa.
KPERS administers $2.8 billion in retirement funds for 91,000 public employers and employees, Crowther said.
However, KPERS funds are invested by a board of seven trustees that are appointed by the governor and confirmed by the state senate.
Finney said the money wasn't public money because it belonged to the retirees and certain municipalities.
The board decided last fall that although its first responsibility was a sound investment policy, Finney said, it would restrict dealings with companies that had ties
to South Africa.
Crowther said, "We have had a policy about South Africa for a year."
This decision was followed by the sale of $22 million investments in such companies, he said.
The board will make no new investments in companies that do business in South Africa and will limit its investment to the Sullivan principles, he said.
Leon Sullivan, a black clerkman and member of the board of General Motors, formulated these principles in the late 1970s.
The companies are complying, but if they fail to perform adequately, they are downgraded, Crowther said.
The companies that adopt the principles agree to provide equal hiring, promotion, pay and training for blacks and whites alike, and to show a degree of involvement in the community.
David Katzman, professor of history, who was chairman of a University committee on South Africa last year, doubts the usefulness of the principles.
"It's just a way of saying 'we are on the side of the good guys.'" Katzman said. "The principles have no teeth in them, no enforcement mechanisms."
Crowther said he didn't think pensions and retirement funds should be singled out for condem-
See DIVESTMENT, p. 5, col. 2
Soviet cruise vessel runs into cargo ship
"Rescue measures have been taken. The necessary assistance is rendered to those affected. There has been loss of life." the report said.
United Press International
MOSCOW — The 17,000-ton Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakimov collided with a cargo ship off the Black Sea coast and sank with "loss of life" Sunday night, Tass, the official news agency, said yesterday.
Foreign diplomats in Moscow said they were unsure whether any foreigners were aboard the Admiral Nakimov.
Tass did not say how many people were aboard the ship or how many died in the collision about 800 miles south of Moscow inside Soviet territorial waters. The ship can carry up to 870 passengers.
It it said the liner sank on the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. The Soviet cargo vessel was not named and apparently was not seriously damaged
A spokesman for the Soviet weather bureau said conditions had been clear with apparently calm seas.
"There was no fog, no rain and only moderate winds," he said.
The accident was the second significant sinking of a Soviet cruise ship in seven months. The luxury liner Mikhail Lermontov struck rocks off New Zealand in February and went down, killing one sailor.
The liner, whose home port is Odessa, is owned by the Soviet government's Black Sea shipping line. The ship was built in Germany in 1925 and is one of the oldest still in use by the line.
The ship was named for Adm. Pavel Nakimov, commander of the
Russian Black Sea fleet during the 1833-56 Crimea War.
Tass said a board of inquiry headed by Politiburo member Geidar Aliyev was established to investigate the accident. A spokesman for the Soviet Merchant Marine Ministry in Moscow confirmed that the ship sank and that some people died but refused to give any further details.
The port of Novorossisysk was equipped with a Hungarian-built electronic navigation and reference aid system in 1984 because of the heavy volume of coastal traffic in the area — one of the few warm water navigational areas in the Soviet Union.
Soviet television announced the sinking on the nightly news program Vremya but gave no other details.
In 1983, a special government commission of the Soviet Merchant Marine Ministry launched an investigation into the activity of the Black Sea line after a series of collisions and near-collisions along the coastal route.
The Soviet Black Sea line operates 87 passenger lines servicing 26 Soviet coastal cities and 10 foreign ports. The line carries about 48 million passengers a year.
It was not immediately known whether the navigational system was in use at the time of the collision.
Officials said the Mikhail Lermontovank off the coast of New Zealand's South Island in February, killing a Soviet sailor but the remaining 750 passengers and crew were rescued.
"The incidents which at times involve Black Sea vessels happen mostly through the fault of their crews," the commission said.
Controllers to get drug tests
Pilot had heart attack before crash
United Press International
CERRITOS, Calif. — The pilot of the small airplane that collided with an Aeromexico jetliner suffered a heart attack apparently before the impact sent the DC-9 plunging into a suburban neighborhood, killing at least 72 people, officials said yesterday.
Federal investigators also said drug tests would be given today to air traffic controllers on duty when the single-engine plane sliced off part of the tail of the jetliner, sending both planes hurling into this Los Angeles suburb.
three in the four-seat Piper that struck it. Authorities said at least five residents were killed and seven injured when the airliner struck their neighborhood.
The death count remained at 72 - 64 of them, including 36 U.S. citizens, in Aeromexico's flight 498 - and
Authorities said they still were not ready to release the identification of the occupants of the Piper, thought to be a man, woman and child.
At least 15 people still were missing.
"They are finding quite a numbe, of body parts, so the number of dead will undoubtedly go up," Fire Capt. Garry Oversy said.
Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Robert Stoneman said authorities feared the toll on the ground might rise to 20
"There is no official count whatsoever on ground casualties," Red Cross spokesman Ralph Wright said. "Part of the problem is we're on a holiday weekend and we don't know who was home and who wasn't. People are only now coming back after a day at the beach."
An autopsy on the man thought to have been flying the Piper indicated that he had died of multiple injuries and that a heart attack was a contributing factor.
Coroner's spokesman Bill Gold said it appeared that the heart attack occurred before the pilot, apparently in his 50s, was decapitated when his cabin roof was sheared off by the impact.
At a news conference several miles from the crash site, National
Transportation Safety Board investigator John Lauber said authorities had been asked to administer drug tests to controllers on duty at Los Angeles International Airport just before noon, when the tragedy occurred.
When asked whether that was nor- mal procedure, he said, "It's getting it"
Lauber said the transponder was found near the wreckage of the Piper with the "on button" activated. But
Lauber said the light plane should have been operating its transponder, an instrument that ensures the small craft will appear on air traffic control radar.
See CRASH p. 5 col. 1
Craftsmen gather to preserve the past
Maria Turner of Overbrook brings her 1937 Model A John Deere tractor to a halt after competing in an antique tractor pull. Sunday's tractor pull was part of the Kansas Silver Centennial Celebration at Clinton State Park this weekend.
Staff writer
By COLLEEN SIEBES
As a boy, Jim Bevan remembers spending summer evenings in Valley Falls watching the blacksmith make pieces of metal glow and twist them into horseshoes, wagon wheels and stove pokers.
Valley Falls has grown, and technology has forced the blacksmith into extinction.
But Bevan has never forgotten what he learned on those summer evenings, and he is making sure the art of blacksmithing endures.
Bevan and others who are concerned with preserving arts from frontier days participated in the Kansas Silver Centennial Celebration this weekend at Clinton State Park.
In his spare time, Bevan travels to benefits to demonstrate the art of blacksmithing and to tell stories of how settlers spent winters making nails in their fireplaces.
"It's been said a blacksmith never threw away a piece of metal in his life because he could always stretch it into something else." he said.
At the celebration, Bevan demonstrated blacksmithing techniques and made triangles like those used to call workers in the fields to meals.
The three-day celebration was sponsored by the Clinton State Park Advisory Board to honor Kansas' 125th anniversary and to raise money for park playground equipment.
Vera Hadl, board member, said the board had hoped to attract 20,000 people over Labor Day Weekend and raise $6,000 by charging vendors for a spot to sell their wares.
Hadd said the board had been planning the celebration for a year. Publicity was not a priority because the board thought the free admission celebration would attract people visiting the park during the weekend.
"For six greenhorn planning their first event, things have turned out fantastic," Hadl said.
Among those who paid tribute to the past was the Lawrence Gunfighter's Association. The group erected props to resemble an old western town and re-enacted a western shoot-out scene.
The association, composed of six wild-west buffs, performs their skits at benefits and competitions. Mike Crawford, who plays Dudley, the town drunk, said the group competed about four times a year. This year, they have taken second- and third-place awards in gunfighting competitions in Junction City and Grand-view, Mo.
Bernie and Dorothy Bowers of Big Springs brought their collection of antique farming and kitchen utensils. They showed spectators how settlers ground wheat into flour and separated cream from milk to make butter.
Mickey Fleeman. 701 Lake St., left, and Brad Tutor. 818 Maple St. Celebration. Fleeman and Tutor took ninth place in this event at the World demonstrate the logger's two-man cross-cut at the Kansas Silver Centennial Lumber Competition in Hayward, Wis., in July.
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KU student to sing before Reaqans against drugs
By SALLY STREFF
Staff writer
Steve Courtney probably can say that he is the only KU student who has made Nancy Reagan cry.
Actually, she bawled, said Courtney, Overland Park sophomore.
But Courtney wasn't trying to upset her. He was just doing his job.
He was singing and dancing to promote awareness of drug abuse, a project Nancy Reagan campaigns for.
Courtney brought tears to Reagan's eyes two years ago in Atlanta at the national convention of the Parents
Resource Institute for Drug Education, a non-profit, anti-drug organization.
He is part of a five-member entertainment group for the Atlanta-based organization. During the last two years, he has performed in front of Nancy Reagan three times, he said.
Reagan is scheduled to sing again for her and President Reagan at a state dinner in Washington later this month.
Courtney said a White House representative called the office of Parents Resource Institute for Drug Education and asked the group to perform at the state dinner, but he said he didn't know whether the first lady had made the
request.
At the organization's national conference two years ago, Courtney and the other singers also were performing for 15 wives of international leaders and 5,000 other anti-drug workers.
At the organization's national convention in March.
At the end of the show, Reagan came on stage. Court-ney sang "We Can Move the Mountains;" to her as a tribute to her work against drugs.
"It brought her to tears," Courtney said. "She had a speech all prepared, but she sort of blubbered her way through it."
Courtney did not sing to her but escorted her to the stage
"She asked me. 'Are you going to make me cry again this year.'" he said.
Courtney started singing at a fine arts camp in fourth grade. In seventh grade, he joined a Kansas City, Mo., singing group that traveled to shopping centers and conventions. The group also talked to teen-agers about drugs.
Then Courtney joined a group called Get High on
Yourself, which traveled to high schools across the
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See SINGER, p. 5, col. 4